Personal Injury

Most of us don’t look twice at the dosages on our prescriptions. Milligrams, milliliters – these miniscule numbers mean little to us. All we need to know is how many pills or spoonfuls to take and how frequently to take them.

But ignorance isn’t always bliss, especially when the medication’s recipient is a child or even a baby. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC

The aftermath of a car accident can be especially confusing for victims who were passengers in the vehicle that caused the accident. As a passenger, you obviously weren’t at fault for the collision. It’s not as though you grabbed the wheel and caused the vehicle to veer out of its lane. You were as helpless to prevent a crash as anyone in the other vehicle or any

You’ve probably heard that resolving a personal injury claim can take years, especially if it turns into a lawsuit. Even if you realize that the only way to truly recover the full amount of compensation you deserve is to hire an attorney, you might think that there’s no hurry to get in touch with a lawyer. You’ve got a couple years, right?

Wrong. The deadlines to

Insurance companies are skilled at persuading victims to accept less money than they really deserve. They may tell you that you’re getting a “fair” offer, and since you don’t deal with paying medical bills for treatments of severe injuries on a daily basis, like they do, you don’t know well enough to disagree. These companies may act as though they are being generous, giving you a gift,

“Remember that time you sued me?” isn’t exactly the kind of chatter you want to have at special family gatherings or while hanging out with friends. Coping with serious injuries can be hard enough, but when a friend or family member caused those injuries, you may feel like you are facing an almost impossible decision. Should you sue your loved one and put them through a financial

One of the most common hesitations that prevent accident victims from pursuing a personal injury claim is the fear that it could bankrupt them. We get it – you’re already under enough financial stress. You’ve missed time at work, and that means your family’s not receiving the income it needs to pay bills and maintain a lifestyle. It has nothing to do with how much money you

You need your car – to get to work, take the kids to school, go on family outings, and even for purposes as basic and necessary as going to the doctor when you’re hurt. Like it or not, life as you know it depends on having reliable transportation. So when a car accident leaves you with serious injuries and property damage, you’re facing physical impairments and transportation

As if the injuries you have suffered in an accident aren’t bad enough, you may be in for yet another rude awakening when you call your doctor’s office. If you didn’t sustain the kind of urgent, life-threatening injuries that required you to take a spontaneous ambulance ride to the local emergency room, you may have thought you were doing the right thing by waiting until you could

Many accident victims wonder what happens if they file a personal injury claim and lose. They don’t want to invest their time and money only to fail. They worry about the expense of hiring a lawyer and the legal fees associated. Often, in the wake of the losses these victims have already endured as a result of the accident, they become afraid that any additional cost could

So far, 2013 has been a year of high-profile courtroom dramas, and it’s not just defendants in the spotlight, but jurors. Jury selection in the murder trial of Jodi Arias was so ill-fated that jurors seemed to exit the trial like it was some bizarre game of musical chairs. The puzzling decision to try George Zimmerman in front of a an all-female, anonymous jury of only six

The organ transplant waiting list is a roster of names more than 118,000 long – and that’s just today’s numbers. Updated every minute by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), the candidates come and go in real time, some receiving life-saving organs from donors, and others leaving the list because their bodies gave out before matching donors became available. The decision making process is often scrutinized,

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How many times have you heard this spiel? “Your privacy is important to us. Read our privacy policy.”

If your privacy was really important, would the websites that you visit every day, the ones that you use to share stories with family and connect with long-distance friends, need to continuously revise a contract to tell you so? If social media websites

Jackpot justice. Runaway juries awarding multimillion dollar verdicts to “barely injured” plaintiffs. These news items grab headlines and ignite public outcry about the civil justice system, especially when they apply to medical malpractice claims. Insurance companies and physicians scream that these verdicts are the reasons for skyrocketing healthcare costs. They cry out for tort reform and caps on damages, while providers threaten to leave for more “doctor

Some accident victims go home in a few days, maybe even a few hours. Years down the road, only a small, pale scar reminds them of the ordeal. For the really lucky ones, there’s no scar at all. While there was certainly pain and fear, the emotions are temporary and life doesn’t really change.

Many burn victims are not so lucky. Wearing the scars day in and

You’ve called every contact in your phone to announce the great news, and now the long pregnancy road lies ahead. In the coming months, you’ll be making a lot of visits to your doctor, hearing words you recognize (ultrasound) and those that sound like they belong to a prehistoric era (preeclampsia?).

Your head may soon be bursting at the seams from the myths and conflicting information that